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The Nation of Macintosh?
Devon Avenger writes "A new short British film has been released according to this article at Wired depicting a cult of Macintosh fanatics who are organised in a manner reminiscent of the Nation of Islam."
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I just got a mental image of Steve Jobs as Louis Farrakhan.
I just don't think the bow tie would go with his black turtleneck.
I think that this group will be a welcome addition to the clics in HBO's "OZ." Now you have Skinheads, Black Muslims, Italians, and the ever-so-feared Macies.
You can not stop us
We have this Unix
You reboot now
Are you afraid?
Death to Microsoft
Death to Sun
Steve is great
Wasting your time since 1997.
Everyone in the movie is named Steve?
"And we have seen and do testify that the Father sent the Son to be the Savior of the World"
1 John 4:14
Yeah, back in the day, we used to call the 512K the "Phat Mac". I can still remember getting the upgrade for our little 128 and hearing "Ride of the Valkyries" pumping out of that little speaker when I played "Airborne!". Ah, the memories.
Another cool Mac vs. Islam reference: the Public Enemy song where Chuck D talks about sitting down to composes his next song by "smack[ing] the Mac on the back and attack"... anyone who remembers the old 9" monochrome machines remembers that little switch on the left in the back... and that happy little "bong!"
I've got a bad attitude and karma to burn. Go ahead. Mod me down.
How's the movie end?
Woz: "Just trust me and insert the purple disk..."
- If we aren't supposed to eat animals, then why are they made out of meat? - Steven Wright
First thought: This is stupid, but lets keep reading. So now I get to this little gem: It's about that whole religious fervor that grabs Mac users the way it doesn't with users of other platforms," said writer/director Jake Barnes, who described himself as a "recovering Mac addict."
Why bother to recover?
What's strange is that it was around the time the story leaked about the existence of an x86 version of OS X at Apple.
http://tinyurl.com/3t236
Please, I prefer reluctant conformist.
Heroscape, it's like legos combined with anachronistic wargames.
Is it coincidence that the "new religion" of Macintosh started in 1984?
Heroscape, it's like legos combined with anachronistic wargames.
And what about all the idiots who queue for hours at night to be the first to get their hands on the latest Windows OS when a new one arrives? Oh but wait a second! Those people are not zealot! Just plain arsholes!
I'll do it for cheesy poofs.
Linux Fanatics usually don't brag about how simple their cute one button mouse is.
They also usually don't care about all the pretty colors their computer comes in.
As a long time mac advocate, forced windows user and linux sysadmin . . . explain to me how mac advocates are significantly different than linux geeks who insist that Linux is the one true un*x, the one to rule them all . . .
;)
Well, it's simple. The Mac advocates are wrong and us Linux geeks are right.
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Karma: Chameleon (you come and go)
Actually the i-bowtie is a Steve Jobs Insanely Great trademark from the 80s.
Steve Jobs circa 1984
I still think Sculley looks scared to have Steve behind him.
Virtual PC is your friend, Grasshopper. Much as WINE-X/Crossover Office is your friend if you are trying to get non-ported games or Microsoft Office running on Linux. Yes, you will need a copy of Windows but the price of Virtual PC with Windows 2K is actually comparable to a copy of Windows 2K alone.
Knowledge is power. Knowledge shared is power multiplied.
I always thought of Malcolm X as a RISCOS guy myself. Hmm, I guess the X is pretty signifigant evidence against that.
If I visit the Apple site and see a Malcom X "Think Different" poster on the front, I'm gonna turn in my G4 for a SunBlade ....
Saturn and Saab owners are waging holy war against each other, and everyone hopes that the NASCAR fans will stay out of it...
Apple-am a-laikum, my iBrothers and iSisters. Would you like an MP3 copy of Steve's Final Call for your iPod? Can I interest you in an iBeanpie? We didn't tear down the gates -- Gates tore us down!
My name is Mac-colm X, and I will soon make my pilgrimage to Cupertino.
Visit me on the web at Permanent4.com.
... it's Malcom X 10.2!
I wonder if Steve Jobs will rename Apple HQ to Macca. Start praying, Mac people!
Apple made huge amounts of money by appealing to non-technical people. Red Hat has not made enough money for a two-bit documentary to come along and call linux a religion.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signature_bloc
As a reprecentive on the Macintosh Liberation Front I hereby state our intention of eliminating all enemies of the Macintosh nation. This is not terrorism but rightful war against the terroists of the non-Macintosh world.
;)
(Yeah. I'm a mac user alright
I heard that some guy even did a TTY-compatible port of the thing with iBrotha script.
--- Jason Olshefsky
Karma: Poser (mostly affected by adding this line long after everyone else did)
Holy crap!! all this time i've been hauling old computers for trade between planets and i thought it was all just a game.
All bow down before the AmbrosiaSW oracles!!
~this is just the begining.
When I used to work at the apple store, one of my friends came in to visit. He walked in to a group of about 6 employees standing around. All wearing the black apple shirt with the white apple on the front and wearing kaki's. He was spooked and asked me if apple was a cult. I told him yes ;)
...compared to certain radical Muslim factions, we're rather peaceful.
/will/ laugh, though, when Windows bombs itself.
For example, we don't bomb things.
We
± 29 dB
No more blue screens of de-eath.
Off the pigs!
Revolution has co-ome.
Make the switch!
[Note to mods: if you were born after 196x, you may not get the reference. Mod accordingly.]
"What is the sound of one belly slapping?"
But I couldn't afford it. They tend to use proprietary robes and shoes. Man that stuff is expensive! They tell me it is better than the stuff I would buy at any other cult though, and it looks cooler. It is just sad that you don't have any real selection.
So I then went to join this cult of Micro$oft. They informed me that I misspelled their name and it doesn't have a $ in it. They seemed rather angered about this, but I explained that I have never seen it spelled any other way. Their cult seemed great on the surface, but I realized that I ownly rented their robes, I would have to pay them every three years for new ones if I needed them or not, and that the new robes generally had many problems with them to boot!
I then went to join this penguin cult. Man, they are a friendly bunch, but they seem to be divied in to a bunch of sub cults that hate each other with a passion, but not quite as much as they hate the Micro$oft cult. I kinda liked the Red Top Penguin cult, but everyone kept telling me how much they are becomming the Micro$oft of the penguin cults. They also did something to anger the other cults by standardising on their robes. I then left this cult.
I then tried a cult of the Bee. I found that this cult recently died and so I left.
The more I learn about science, the more my faith in God increases.
(You look better when you declare you correctness correctly.)
You look better when you correct people correctly.
Yeah, but no one would pay to see it, demanding free passes instead, so the filmmakers would go out of business.
And thus, I leave slashdot.
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Now you'll be able to more accurately take the piss out of windows users.
Cheers!
Karma: Bored. (Thinking about resurrecting the "Anyone else is an imposter" joke.)
Heh. Well, I do have a t-shirt that reads "Chicks dig UNIX".
At my job, this is actually true. There are many damn cute geek girls in this town anyway, and most do appreciate (Linux|BSD|!Windows) ubergeeks.
Hey, it can be hard to meet people! I don't use my geek status or OS choice to define myself (entirely), but it has sure helped me find people to spend non-computing time with. That includes real sex, for those of you who haven't looked up from the porn on your monitors in a few weeks.
That last was a joke, so don't get your (Thinkgeek) panties all in a knot.
-- clvrmnky
for a company with 5% market share, Slashdot spend *a lot* of time talking about Apple.
As opposed to that massive linux market share that's been getting so much press here lately.
*snicker*
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The moderators suck there too.
"It's about that whole religious fervor that grabs Mac users the way it doesn't with users of other platforms"
Pardon him. He hasn't visited Slashdot.
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